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Tag Name "Literal" (177)

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I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.
Edward Gorey
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All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords by which they are expressed, or to attend to their literal instead of their metaphorical sense. They are already supernatural philosophy.
Henry David Thoreau
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Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.
Catherine Keener
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The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins, journalistically, with the facts.
William Shawn
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All of my songs are about me and my experiences. They're very literal.
Lily Allen
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I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.
Ann Goldstein
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I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.
Amanda Palmer
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I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me.
Mitch Hedberg
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Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.
Sam Abell
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We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.
Daniel Quinn
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I don't like literal spaces, I don't like literal anything. I still like some kind of guess work but some pieces work and they just pop.
Jason Shawn Alexander
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My work makes people understand things in a visual way that I could never understand in a literal way - like the way you deal with and break down problems, and don't come up with answers, but [find] a pathway that becomes clearer.
Ali Banisadr
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All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
Benjamin Jowett
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We’re destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.
Ishmael
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The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me.'
Michael Stipe
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I argue against literal interpretation of religious doctrines. Religions make progress when they emancipate themselves from literalism, and take their doctrinal statements to be metaphors or allegories.
Philip Kitcher
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I was struggling to find a way to make evening clothes more deconstructed. I like to think that I translated the Latin concept in a more modern way. I don't think that I was that literal.
Vera Wang
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There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there are bullets flying, some symbolic, some literal and the life of the mind is a crucial place where the battle goes on.
Cornel West
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When I was a child, my parents taught a literal creation. By the time I was in my 20s they were accommodating evolution. In other words, less creed, more roll with changing ways of seeing. Maybe adapting is a better way to see this.
Frank Schaeffer
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I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.
Bo Burnham
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Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.
Alexandra Fuller
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In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth.
Theresa Breslin
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Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.
Archibald MacLeish
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The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters
Thomas Cahill
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